This Weight Watchers Chicken Salad with grapes has a light and fresh taste, and is perfect for lunches. I love using crockpot chicken for this because it makes for a quick lunch recipe.
Serve this on lettuce, make a salad and use this as a topping, or use it in a healthy chicken salad sandwich–it’s up to you! The mixture of mayo and Greek yogurt really cuts down on the points and adds protein to this recipe.
This versatile recipe is so satisfying because it’s filling, a little sweet, and a little salty. The nuts give it a great crunch, too!
Weight Watchers chicken salad with grapes is one of my favorite lunch recipes. It’s a great option for meal prep and it is delicious on top of lettuce or as a low carb wrap. I’ve made this recipe for several summer BBQ parties, and everyone loves it!
Ingredients in this WW Chicken Salad:
- cooked chicken breast, boneless and skinless
- red and green grapes (1/2 cup of both mixed or just choose one!)
- cooked boneless and skinless chicken breast
- red and green grapes (1/2 cup of both mixed or just choose one!)
- apple
- non-fat Greek yogurt (unflavored)
- vanilla
- olive oil mayo (or whatever mayo you typically use in your home)
- black pepper
- chopped pecans (optional)
- lettuce leaves, if you’re making lettuce wraps or serving on top of a bed of greens.
Other optional ingredients:
- salt, to taste
- half cup green onions
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1 cup celery
- 1/2 cup diced dill pickles
- 1/2 cup of diced red onion
How do I make this healthy chicken salad?
It could not be easier to make this healthy chicken salad. When it comes to Weight Watchers recipes you’ll love that this one is tasty and simple to make.
- Blend yogurt, mayo, vanilla extract, and pepper in a large bowl.
- Stir in shredded chicken, grapes, apple, and nuts.
- That’s it! I prefer to chill my chicken salad in the fridge before using it in a recipe, but it’s not necessary. I honestly think it tastes even better the next day!
Recipe Tips:
- Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days.
- Nonfat, regular, and lowfat yogurt all have different ww points! Be sure to calculate the exact ingredients you use when making this great recipe.
Healthy Eating Plans:
Weight Watchers:
Each serving of this healthy high protein chicken salad has 5 Blue Plan Points | 8 Green Plan Points | 5 Purple Plan Points. The serving size is half of the recipe.
If you’re using the Personal Points Weight Watchers program, you’ll have to enter these ingredients into the app yourself. WW won’t allow me to calculate Weight Watcher points for anyone else on the WW PersonalPoints program. On the PP program, all of your points are custom, including your zero points foods. If they change this down the line, I’ll definitely start calculating points for you again!
A note about mayonnaise and yogurt:
This recipe uses half and half mayo and plain Greek yogurt to replace the fat and calories from using just mayonnaise. Using regular mayo or full fat yogurt will increase the fat in this recipe a bit, though the saturated fat will still be fairly low. If you’re using light mayonnaise, please recalculate the points in this recipe using the WW app.
About the fruit and nuts:
Using the grapes and apples adds sweetness that can cut out cravings later in the day, but dried cranberries or any other dried fruit work as well. Removing the fruit from this recipe will reduce the carbs quite a bit, if that is a concern of yours. Removing the nuts will reduce the points.
Using homemade rotisserie chicken or crock pot chicken in this recipe can cut out a ton of ingredients you might not care for that are being used in store bought rotisserie chicken. Stores typically use a lot of sodium, artificial sweeteners and other ingredients as well as preservatives in their rotisserie chicken. Any cooked chicken will work in this recipe, though.
If you change this recipe at all, you’ll need to recalculate the points for yourself to make sure they’re accurate.
How do you calculate Weight Watchers points?
I use the online recipe creator feature at Weight Watchers Online. It’s a great resource for making sure you have the most accurate calculations! For the most accurate counts, use your exact ingredients, not nutrition info from recipes. Adding any ingredients to this recipe is going to add extra points, so be sure to recalculate.
Looking for more WW Recipes?
- Breakfast Fried Rice
- Tuscan Chicken Pasta
- Beef Stroganoff
- Buffalo Chicken Dip
- Egg Bites
- Chocolate Ice Cream
- Dill Pickle Chicken Salad
Weight Watchers Chicken Salad with Grapes
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cup cooked boneless skinless chicken breast chopped or shredded
- ½ cup seedless red grapes halved and chilled
- ½ cup seedless green grapes halved and chilled
- 1 small apple cored and diced
- ½ cup fat free plain yogurt
- ⅛ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp olive oil mayo
- ¼ tsp black pepper
- 6 romaine or green tip lettuce leaves
- 10 pecans chopped
Instructions
- Blend yogurt, vanilla extract, mayo, and pepper in a large bowl.
- Stir in cooked and diced chicken, halved grapes, diced apple, and chopped nuts.
- Use immediately or chill before using. Store in an airtight container for up to 5 days in the fridge.
Notes
- Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days.
- Nonfat, regular, and lowfat yogurt all have different ww points! Be sure to calculate the exact ingredients you use when making this great recipe.
My mother in law has been doing WW For awhile and she’s always looking for new recipes. This one was perfect! Thanks!
Thanks, Liz!
I just whipped up this chicken salad as I had all the ingredients and leftover chicken from last night, and it was delicious! Fresh and flavorful and I really like the addition of grapes. Thanks so much for the recipe!
Yay!! So glad you liked it!
That is one beautiful meal. I love that it’s waistline friendly too!
Thank you Julie!
I love every ingredient in this recipe especially the grapes, yogurt and pecans. Thanks for reminding me to make this — might be good with the rest of my turkey too!
Beth, it would be delicious with turkey!
Hello! This looks so good. Do you use Greek yogurt or regular yogurt?
I usually use greek!
What is a serving size for this Chicken Salad? Is it a 1/2 cup?
Going to make it today. It looks delicious.
It’s always best to divide your recipe to get the most accurate serving sizes!
so you divide this recipe in 1/2 and then each half equals 3 points?
Yes :)
This was so delicious and easy to make. Just enough crunch to be satisfying and will become one of my favorite lunch items. So flavorful with the grapes and apples. I did add some celery seed for flavor but nothing else.
When do you add the vanilla? Is this the same thing as vanilla extract or is it something else?
You add in the vanilla (yes, vanilla extract ;) ) when blending the yogurt, mayo and pepper. I just realized that bit had been left out of the recipe – thanks for letting me know, it’s been updated now :)
Thank you! :)
I made this recipe tonight and loved it. I used the Greek yogurt that was only 2 grams of sugar, I added chopped celery and toasted the pecans. This is a keeper for sure.
Love this recipe. Filling. Low points. Crunchy and sweet.
On purple plan it says 5 points. What if I didnt add the pecans?
I’d recalculate the points with the exact ingredients you used.